Chinese Quotes - Page 4

• By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.

  Denis Waitley

  Fathers Day, Work, Careers

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• Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

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• I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

  Yue Minjun

  Meaningful, Cynical, Trying

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• To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Philosophy

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• Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

  Ai Weiwei

  Change, Thinking, Society

  Interview with Katie Hill, www.tate.org.uk. October 12, 2010.

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• First, modify the patient's diet and lifestyle and only then, if these do not effect a cure, treat with medicinals and acupuncture.

  Sun Simiao

  Health, Medicine, Firsts

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• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The World is Large - Its beauty indescrible.

  Zhuangzi

  World

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• According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  John F. Kennedy

  Travel, New Beginnings, Journey

  Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Address to the Nation, delivered 26 July 1963

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  It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

  Confucius

  Stars, Mean, Exercise

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.145, Courier Corporation

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• The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united.

  Martin Yan

  Division, Hong Kong, Problem

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• My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional.

  Mira Sorvino

  College, Study, Majors

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• As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

  Eric Allin Cornell

  Mistake, Literature, Study

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• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory.

  Joan Rivers

  Telephones, Chins

  "Nicole Arbour Controversy" by James Fell, www.mirror.co.uk.

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• He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.148

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• A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

  George Eliot

  Happiness, Women, Heart

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• The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

  William C. Kirby

  Successful, Government, Political

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• Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

  Confucius

  Learning, Programming, Computer Language

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• China is a country with a record of continuous self-government going back 4,000 years, the only society that has achieved this. One must start with the assumption that they must have learnt something about the requirements for survival, and it is not always to be assumed that we know it better than they do.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Government, Self

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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